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IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour. Not a single dire wolf has been seen on Earth in over 10,000 years, when the species went extinct.
But a Dallas-based biotech company has claimed to have used both cloning and gene-editing to birth three dire wolf pups. Experts have that the pups are actually dire wolves. But what could this development mean for other endangered species? ( , approx 23 mins reading time) Do you believe in luck? One philosopher who studied it didn’t believe that ‘unluckiness’ was something people had.
Then he met his wife – who was comically unlucky. In this enjoyable piece, Eric Boorman explores the nature of luck through their story. ( , approx 35 mins reading time) More than 50 years ago, Peter Herrmann’s father recruited him into Russia’s KGB.
In this fascinating article, he tells his story publicly for the first time. ( , approx 28 mins reading time) Meet the Dublin company that’s taking on the big tech giants when it comes to drone deliveries. ( , approx 5 mins reading time) After Emily Polk’s daughter died, she found solace in the company of bees.
In this piece, she writes about what they can teach us about loss. ( , approx 21 mins reading time) Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s incredibly moving essay about the Holocaust and her friend’s father, who survived it, is a must read. ( , approx 45 mins reading time) In 2016, four friends from West Bengal tried to climb Mount Everest.
They were abandoned near the summit. Three died. It took more than a year to bring them all home.
This incredible multimedia piece tells the story of the recovery mission. ( , approx 57 mins reading time).
